Re: spurious remap_file_pages() -EINVAL

[Hugh Dickins]

On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> As ->vm_private_data is used as a cursor for swapout of VM_NONLINEAR
> vmas, the check for NULL ->vm_private_data or VM_RESERVED is too
> strict, and should allow VM_NONLINEAR vmas with non-NULL ->vm_private_data.
> 
> This fixes an issue on 2.6.7-mm5 where system calls to remap_file_pages()
> spuriously failed while under memory pressure.

How embarrassing!  Yes, thank you.

Hugh

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